Kilpatrick Loses Book Profit Battle

DETROIT (WXYZ) – A Wayne County Circuit Court Judge ordered that an escrow account be set up to collect all profits from Kwame Kilpatrick’s upcoming book until the former mayor’s restitution is paid. Wayne County Assistant Prosecutors revealed in court Wednesday that some money has already been made on Kilpatrick’s soon-to-be released memoir, “Surrendered.”

Wearing jeans and a short-sleeved button down shirt, Detroit’s former mayor faced Judge David Groner. At issue in the hearing – whether profits from Kilpatrick’s tell-all book would be forfeited to pay off the remaining $860,000 in restitution Kilpatrick still owes Detroit.